Strzyzow (also known as Strizev in Yiddish and Strezow in German) is today a
major town in southern Poland (it was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of
Austria Hungary, from 1776 to 1919).
The earliest known Jewish community appeared in the 16th century, but it was
not until the 18th century that the synagogue was built. Strzyzow is located
in the Rzeszow region at latitude 49 52', longitude 21 48', 40 km south of Rzeszow, 75 km west of Przemysl. Today there are no Jews in
Strzyzow.

My great grandmother Frieda Necha KANDEL was born in Strzyzow in 1860 (the photo is from 1913). Frieda married Josef SCHEINER, a Schochet from the nearby town of Dubetsk. They emigrated to the United
States in the late 1890s.

In loving memory of those who lived and died there, and of those who ventured
out, I have created two web pages, one devoted to the town (on JewishGen's
Shtetlinks), and this one, devoted to the Yizkor Book.

The Yizkor Book, Sefer Strizhuv, was published in 1969 in Tel Aviv. It has 480
pages; mostly Hebrew and Yiddish. In 1990, Harry Langsam translated it into
English,
and published it in Los Angeles, entitling it "The Book of Strzyzow and
Vicinity". Harry Langsam has given JewishGen permission to reproduce the
contents on this web page. To date, I have entered the table of contents, the
list of names, the index and a few of the most poignant stories. With time, I
will add other stories to this page.

I hope you will find this interesting and helpful. Please contact me if you
have questions or comments. As with any genealogical research, this is an
evolving project.

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